"""
Copyright 2012 Wieser Dietmar, Margit Mutschlechner.

This file is part of Multimedia Social Networking Platform.

Multimedia Social Networking Platform is free software: 
you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Multimedia Social Networking Platform is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Multimedia Social Networking Platform.  
If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

"""

from msnp.persistence.xml.accessors import StaticPeerAccessor

FILENAME = "msnp/xml/staticPeers.xml"


def getStaticPeerList():
    """This function reads the static peers file.
    
    Returns:
        It returns a list of StaticPeer objects containing the static peers. 
    """
    global FILENAME
    
    return StaticPeerAccessor.getStaticPeerList(FILENAME)